A COMIC'S VIEW: My friends tell me that Nassau has more blackouts than a bar full of drunks
WHILE entertaining some of my fellow professional stand-up comedians, who were in town recently, you know libations were a must, so off to the pub we went.
EDITORIAL: It’s time to tell us everything, BPL
“This has gone beyond a crisis. This is an all-out catastrophe.”
DIANE PHILLIPS: Why violence and hatred are so hard to understand
Let me state this up front. I am not a psychologist and I have absolutely no training in the psyche of anything. Sometimes I don’t even understand why my dog barks at nothing, or nothing that we can see or hear. Just stating all that up front so you don’t have any expectations that what I am about to discuss has any scientific basis whatsoever and is based solely on serious conjecture.
EDITORIAL: Implement alert for Marco’s sake
It is almost eight years since Marco Archer was murdered, a killing which shocked Bahamians at a time of too many killings.
STATESIDE: A city’s demise sparks another new low from the Oval Office
Baltimore, the largest city in Maryland and the epicentre of its political life, has seen better days. Now 290 years old, the city was still America’s second largest - after only New York - as recently as 1850.
BUSINESS BITES: Shifting sands in the way we spend money
I have been reading about a new Sand Dollar - not the physical sea urchin, but an immaterial financial concept based on digital technology. We will never see a Sand Dollar to hold in our hand, just a numeral in an account statement.
THE ALICIA WALLACE COLUMN: We all need a plan for a time we can’t avoid
We are ageing, living longer and it is does not seem like we realise it.
EDITORIAL: Show a little respect, Mr Rodney
Do it my way or I’ll close my resort.
EDITORIAL: Power to the people
The holiday weekend was a well-deserved break for many. People packed up work on Friday, and headed home ready to enjoy the three-day break – ready to relax and unwind. It’s a shame Bahamas Power and Light had other plans for Bahamians.
FACE TO FACE: Bob marched to his own drum and enriched my life
The value of life and the value of this weekly column was put into deep perspective for me as I prepared this edition – a dedication to media pioneer Bob Thompson.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Football widows beware
Yesterday, I was standing on line at BPL trying to pay my power bill before another ‘load shedding’ exercise takes place.
EDITORIAL: Don’t let profit kill our conch
Imagine a Bahamas without conch.
SEBAS BASTIAN: Housing market is key but we need to speed things up
Modern economies are complex and interdependent systems whose components should work together to create value. Technological advancement, taxation, consumption, and productivity, for example, are all forces that work together to power the economic m
DIANE PHILLIPS: That sexy lingerie . . . why, oh why did I save it all these years?
For my 50th birthday, our close friends Jackson and Pam Burnside gave me a very sexy, see-through piece of lingerie. It was an all-in-one panty and top with ever so thin straps, made all of lace and imagination.
EDITORIAL: What have immigration officers got to hide?
It happened in the dead of night. At four in the morning, officers from the immigration department swooped in an operation called Rising Sun – but it ended with accusations of violence, claims officers entered a property without a warrant, and a prominent member of a Bahamas human rights group held in custody with family members for hours.
